I've lived around databases all my life, 21st century is challenging for them: big data, throughput, complexity, virtualization, global distribution - it's all scalability.
I'm the founder and CTO of ScaleBase, solving this problem is a workoholic's heaven, so I'm having great time!
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Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Kudos to RDS's SLA, proving the point of the public cloud

If you go and spin a new RDS server, you'll see this new page added before the wizard:

My perception over the last months is that AWS improved RDS availability, multi-AZ, and they are pushing it more aggressively.

An availability factor of "three and a half nines" (~8hr/year of downtime) is very very good, it usually has a very high price tag attached to it (hardware, software & labor) and usually is a dream for the smaller-medium IT organizations.

Enabling it on a utility low price, 25%-33% higher than the corresponding EC2 machine, RDS makes a real bargain for everyone, making it harder to stay out of public cloud.

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Technology leader, data and databases expert, hand on system
architect, senior consultant and project manager, with great experience in
understanding various aspects of organizations, distributed applications, and
integration of various technologies, hardware and software solutions.

I'm the founder and CTO of ScaleBase, a venture backed startup company building a next-generation distributed database engine based on standard MySQL databases to bring true cloud elasticity and scale-out capabilities to standard relational databases

An Oracle DBA since 1997, have administered database versions from Oracle7 till Oracle11g. My experience includes a senior and leading DBA in large organizations in the government and hi-tech industries, administering complex databases serving critical applications and data warehouses with large volumes and 24X7 availability, and with integration of almost every feature and product in the Oracle database offering.

An enterprise application software architect since 2001, specializes in the Java/JEE technology stack, with specific focus on Oracle middleware offering – from Oracle9iAS, OC4J and nowadays – the WebLogic platform.